Red Cross Shows $325 Million Effort in Eighteen Months
The War Council reports the American Red Cross has connected with 8,854 chapters and 20,648,103 annual members plus 3,000,000 Junior members. Funds raised exceed $115 million in the first war fund and $176 million in the second. Women produced vast relief items totaling over 221 million articles valued at about $44 million.
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Red Cross
War Council
American Red Cross
The
Junior Red Cross
United States
National Headquarters
War Fund
America
France
Workers of the Red Cross
Home Service
Europe
Army
Navy
Baker
Pershing
Ireland
Red Cross Commission
England
Italy
Belgium
Switzerland
Palestine
Greece
Russia
Siberia
Denmark
Serbian
Madeira
Asia
Ned Cross
Army of Mercy
Aha
WAR Council OF the American Red Cross
Henry P. Davison
Washington, I, CG
Proper Home Smokehouse Construction and Meat Preservation
Instructions cover building smokehouses from small barrels to brick structures, safe smoke delivery, fuel choices like green hickory, smoking durations, and ventilation. It details meat brining timing, hanging, temperature control around 120 degrees F, and 24 hour smoke periods, plus wrapping smoked meat in yellow washed sacks to protect from insects with a recipe for yellow wash.
Breed All Available Mares to Top Stallion
Every sound mare of good type and over 1200 pounds should be bred to the best available draft stallion for herd improvement.
Plowing In the Fall
Fall plowing is deemed more critical to good farming than commonly considered, as the practice enhances soil structure and long term crop yields.
Moveable-frame Hives Boost Honey Yields for Beekeepers
The USDA report says hundreds of thousands of bee colonies in log gums and box hives produce little honey. Switching to movable-frame hives and improved methods could raise individual profits and add millions of pounds to the nation's supply, as crude harvests lead to wasted honey and swarming losses.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Make Chicks Exercise For Grain Feeding
Provide chicks with a shallow litter of alfalfa leaves to forage for grain. Always keep grit and shell before them to aid digestion and shell formation.
Bees Die In Winter From Protection And Food Shortages
The passage notes bees perish each winter due to insufficient protection and lack of adequate food stores. It emphasizes the annual loss of bee populations linked to harsh conditions and inadequate sustenance.
Salt Treatment Said To Rid Weevils In Corn
A man reports he controls weevils in corn by adding a peck of salt for every 25 barrels during storage. He sprinkles salt throughout the grain and claims the pests do not bother the corn.
Feeding Sour Milk Helps Chick Health Against Diarrhea
Feeding sour milk is praised as one of the best methods to save chicks from white diarrhea and prevent other bowel troubles.
Grade Your Potatoes For Top Market Prices
Potatoes must be graded to government standards to fetch top prices. Proper grading ensures quality and consistency across shipments. Authorities stress following official criteria for size weight and appearance.
Green Pasture and Green Feed Guidance
The note emphasizes green pasture for Hage and asserts no equal green pasture for hog feed. It states green feed is necessary and mentions rape as a top option for green feed in poultry nutrition.
Spirit that Counts at the Yard
Harmon Marsh recalls a letter from an east coast official in a shipyard. Daily trains carry soldiers who cheer the steel hulls and riveters’ noise as they pass. A worker’s line to return them from France becomes a plea for ships to reach them and bring them back.
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Harmon Marsh
Uncle Sam
France
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Promote Skin Relief
Itching burning skins and various eruptions respond to Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Free samples available by mail from Cuticura Dept. B Boston. Soap 25 cents Ointment 25 and 50 cents. Adv.
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Cuticura
Dept
Boston
Frohman Keeps Identity Secret to Spare Doorkeeper
Charles Frohman entered a theater with J M Barrie and did not reveal his fame. Barrie asked why he hid his identity, and Frohman replied it would have humiliated the doorman, who is a good man simply doing his job.
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Charles Frohman
J. M. Barrie
Barrie
Frohman
Red Cross Ball Blue Advertises Made in America Quality
A brief grocer advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue as the best American made product for the home. It claims popularity among housewives and notes availability from all good grocers.
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America
Busy Day Bore and the Graphophone Visit
A Chronicle Telegraph quip portrays a caller who asks to speak briefly, then is invited to use a graphophone in the next room. The exchange ends with the promise of re recording when time allows, keeping both amused and entertained.
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Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Cole Carbolisalve Heals Burns and Skin Ailments
Cole's Carbolisalve advertises fast relief from burning and itching with no scar healing. It promises pain relief from burns and offers 2hc and 50c packaging. Readers are urged to send 25c to The J. W. Cole Co. in Rockford Illinois for a package.
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Cole
J. W. Cole Co
Rockford, Il
Wartime Woe in Munition Factories Alleviates Wardrobe Woes
A patriotic young woman laments the dilemma of earning wages in munition factories yet needing to wear overalls. She toils in a hall rack, shares meals with family, and searches for scouring soap while her mother considers the changing times and the burden of new surplus income.
Discouraged Frenchman Learns English Wordplay
A Frenchman found English hard to learn, noting he could pronounce typhoid fever but a doctor still pronounced it as total, highlighting translation missteps and language quirks.
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Aberdeen
Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
Watson BE. Coleman
Washington, D.C
Advica
Murine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
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